Preview: Boycott the Gunston 500

Boycott the Gunston 500 is The Inertia's latest project that details the unprecedented interaction of pro surfing and activism.

The story revolves around two-time defending World Champion Tom Carroll's decision to protest apartheid by boycotting the South African leg of the 1985 World Tour -- an action that wasn't unanimously embraced by the wider surfing world.

Preview: Boycott the Gunston 500

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See the Inertia's newest film project that details surfing's fight against apartheid in South Africa.

In this outtake from the film, Sal Masekela shares a story about the first time he surfed in South Africa shortly after the abolition of apartheid.

Sal is a surfer who is deeply connected to the anti-apartheid movement, and his run-in with the law is what he described as the "most humiliating, incomprehensible experience with racism I had yet to date in my life."